Caltrops - Rants - Re: Gay technology advertisement

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by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/30/2003, 6:47pm PDT

laudablepuss wrote:

And now I'm compelled to contemplate just how dumb this is again. Apparently they think that this approach will help them sell huge, refrigerator-sized storage devices.

I worked for StorageTek for three months when I first moved out here. I guess that somebody somewhere was buying those gigantic castles of RAID hard drives, and God Bless 'em, but it was a seriously depressing place to work because it felt like at any time the flimsy house of cards that the market for them would dry up. It was like working in an alternate Civ II universe where the "miniaturization" tech hadn't been researched just yet and we were waiting for the one spy there in the game to steal it from the Aztecs.

Course, they didn't include a free DVD with any of their models, so I guess they really hadn't considered alternative marketing angles very well. This was in 1998, so they could have thrown in a copy of U.S. Marshals or, if they really wanted to up the stakes, Insurrection.

... I still can't get over that there are companies out there that are holding prospective clients hostage for two hours by promising them a feature film when they get done begging them for a bone or two. I'm surprised that the seats didn't come pre-slathered with a bucket of wet glue so that they could keep you there once you did sit down, like Spanky trying keep track of all the kids he was babysitting in that one Li'l Rascals episode.

the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!